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CZECH CONSUL SLAIN

Paris, Apr. 6.

The Czechoslovak Con- sul, M. Racgejac, was as- sassinated last night.

The Police report that he

- was found beaten to death in'

the Palais de Chaillot gardena, near the Arc de Triomphe,

They said he had evidently been clubbed to death by blows to the back of his head. His wallet Iny near the body, with about 58,000 francs Inside,

There were signs of a fight, Indicating he had tried to put up a fight with his assailant or assailants-Assaelated Press.

Reuter adds that the consul'a

gold watch was also found near the body; I had stopped at 12.45 nm. His clothes were torn. M. Gejza Ruegelne was born Bratislava in 1907. He Czechoslovak WAR appointed

Consulto Paris in the latter part of 1945.

Floods In The States

Chicago, Apr. 5.

In

GLOUCESTER ARCADE

No. 33632.

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HONG KONG, MONDAY, APRIL 7, 1947.

CAR DRIVERS PETITION TO

GOVERNMENT

Licensing Of Those Unqualified Said To Be Major Cause Of Accidents A Tough

15 Suggestions

Put Forward

a lengthy Petition which the Hong Kong Motor Car Drivers' Automobile Association has sub- mitted to Government in regard to the pro- posed Vehicle and Traffic Ordinance 1947, it is claimed that one of the reasons behind the in- crease in the number of traffic accidents is the issue of driving licenses to persons who are not fully qualified to drive.

In its Petition, the Association | confusion in regard to the fixing [attributes. traße nccidents to the of responsibility when an accident | following causes! -

than 10,000 driving licenses have

uccurs,

A. B. DA ROZA

KILLED

A traple accident occurred

at about 7 p.m. last night when A. B. da Roza, 32, id Ladder to be living, ut 8

Street, in jumping off the No. 3134 of Binke Pier after it had started, fell and sena un over by its rear wheel.

He was rushed to Queen Mary Hospital in a serious condition and succumbed to his injuries at 10.10 p.m.

Eye-witnessrs maid the de- reased tean, atcompanied by a jady rompanion who failed to pet on the bit when it start- ed; he then jumped off.

Hitler Henchman's Suicide

(a) The Issue of driving leentes (12) The public should be to individuals who are not fully {edrated as to is resp:nsibilities qualified to drive and who do not und should be discouraged, from pssess the slightest knowledge jay walking. Pamphlets and no- regarding traffic regulations, tices should be issued in Chinese Torrential April rains

It is pointed out that no less as well as in English.

(13) Government should, in flooded sections of the been issued by the Traffic Depart-conjunction with the Asscciation,, Midwest today, halting ment since the re-occupation and form a committee to investigate that a large percentage of those traffic problems and consider the not fully renle of wages to be paid to criverà, da'well as werking hours, (16) Government should co- tho Association in operate with regret to testing the knowledge of drivers, and licensos should taly be issued against a certificate

Nuernberg, Apr. 6. issued by the Association as to

The prison authorities the fitness of the ppplicant.

co announced today that (16) Government should operate with the Association in Herbert Backe, 51, form- the establishment of a training er Assistant Minister of school for drivers,

and hawkers,

Job For Ernie

London, Apr. 5. Only the superhuman efforts of the British Foreign Secretary, Mr. Ernest Bevin, can now avert complete failure of the Moscow Foreign Ministers conference, de- ciares the Moscow cor- respondent of the Left

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London, Apr. 5.

Mr. Winston Churchill, in a scathing denunciation of the Government's plan to reduce the period of conscription from 18 to 12 months, said in à formal statement today that "the effect of this naked concession will be injurious to the re- putation of our country at this critical time all over the world."

The statement sak, "Last throughout all stages of this Monday declared in the Houro bill.

of Commons that the Intention "We must now reconsider our of the Conservative Party was position and the course of ac- to sustain the Government not tion in the light of the national

only on the second reading but interest".

Worst Day In Hitler's Life

The

EDITOR'S NOTE: A few days before the war ended, a group of SS men gathered near Hitler's Berchtesgaden ratrent to destroy a act of highly secret papers and stenographie minutes of Hitlere meetings with his military High Command. jab was hurriedly done; a few of the papers remained un- buried and some only partly burned. United States Army documents teams found them and for two years the Army

Now for held the papers in secret, atudging them carefully. the first time they have been released.

Frankfurt, April 5.

Wing Sunday paper "The worst day of my life," according to Adolf "The People."

Hitler, was not the July 20, 1944 attempt to blast him into eternity with a bomb, but came almost a month later, when the highly trust- ed Field-Marshal Gunther von Kluge almost succeeded in turning over the entire western German Armies to the Allies.

"On the really big issue of the future of Germany the Russians and Americana are at complet loggerheads," the correspondent declares,

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Tonight the Americans are <« tired of wrangling that they ar threatening to go home and then start building up their part Germany into a separate

atats

will If necessary the American's set up a German, Government of their own pad algn a separate pence with it.

"Mr. Bevin regils such on outcome as one grave enough to

traffic, disrupting com-holding licenses are munications and forcing qualified. the evacuation of hun- (b) Obstructions consed hy dreds of families from hand trucks, rickshaws, tricycles their homes.

(c) Inadequate traffic signals Approximately 500 persons and lights. wore taken from Chicago's (d) Fullure to submit all southwestern suburbs an the vehicles to a thorough test before floods reached the second stories allowing them on the road, with of many homes. Property dam-the result that many vehleles, nge was widespread throughout † with faulty mechanism, ure in northern Illinois.

to (c) Bad: condition of the roads, dividuals aspiring Became Agriculture under Hit to Reuters parts of Iowa, Nebraska and (f) Money-grabbing vehicle drivers may be taught driving, the Michigan,, where weather fore-owners

no scruples care and maintenance of vehicles handkerchiefs at about castern said the southern nec about overloading, and carrying and trame regulations. tion of the state faced the excess passengern. "worst flood condition in his.

unskilled

Flood waters also covered

30.

who have

tory." The floods ranched as far drivers in preference to skitted Havana

cast as Wellabro, Penna., which drivers with a view to payin was half covered.

leas wages.

The Chicago Weather Bureau (h) Over-working of drivers said there was 3.06 inches of the strain, of working more than rain, one of the heaviest falls eight hours a day having a de- on record.

trimental effect en the capablll-- tiles of a driver.

A tornado slashed through the Oklahoma hill country near (1) Complete disregard of trame ithe Arkansas border, klifing regulations by pedestrians, many four persona and injuring of whom nie new arrivals to the several others. The twister fol-Colony from China proper. lowed violent rain and hail

(3) Ignorance of many drivers storm which swirled through for "military vehicles regarding the two other sections of Oklahoma, mechanism of such vehicles.

In lown a Milwaukee freight engine and two care plunged

were

Suggestions

through a bridge weakened by The Petition then proceeds to the flooding of the Des Moines set forth the following suggestions Rivor. Three tratamen

for the consideration of Govern thrown into the river but allment: were rescued.-United Press. (1) That there be a temporary cessation in the issue of driving licenses.

Later

Chicago, Apr. 0. Floods killed at least one per- son and threatened thaissands of others in Michigan, Pennsylvania, today but high waters were be ginning to drop in flooded mid- western and scuthern areas.

Tornadoes

Licenses to be issued only after appilcant has undergone an alringent test.

be

Street Fighting

at which In-

Havana, Apr. 0.

ler, hanged himself with

midnight GMT (8 am local time).

Backe, who is awaiting trial in a case against the Nazl Ministry of Food and Agricul ture, tied several handkerchiefa together. looped them over toilet equipment in his cell and then knotted them around his half an neck. He was found hour later by n guard making the usual rounds.

At least two persons, were in- Jured in nightlong street fighting in Havana where Autentico (gov

rnment) and Communist poll. cul parties clashed last night in a struggle for the contre of the Cuban Workers Confederation.

tained. As the result of three attacks y Autenticos on Communist arecinct headquarters, Minister of the Interir. Aedo Pequeno or dered the Cofigress of Cuban Workers Federation, which was scheduled to convene today, to be cancelled "for reasons of publie order."

Autention bands swept down on the Communist offices and at tempted to smash the premises. Fighting began last week as 2,000 delegates to the ingress gather- ed in Ilavana fer an all-out poli- tical struggle for control of the Federation. United

A revision of the scale of wages and working hours of drivers.

(2) There should mere "Safety First" Campaigns.

Such campaigns in the past powerful 3 parts of Oklahoma, Missouri, to have not been as thorough as they Press.

day, kiling at least four persons, should be and the Association be

slashed through

In most of the rest of the coun-asked to co-operate with Govern. try, Americans prepared to brave ment in the matter of future deep snows, heavy rains and high "Safety First" Campaigns.

winds on an Easter Porade. United Press,

THE WEATHER

A weak antleyclone is moving over

́ ́be. Ben at Japan and ́a tides of moder.

ately high pressure extendė from k to

(3) More supervision be exer cised by the authorities over hand trucks, rickshaws, tricycles and

hawkers.

((4) Restoration of all pre-war traffic. lights and signals.

*(5) Inalstenco on the proper BE China. Another antispalona app provision of headlights, rear lights, to be developing over Waster Monrolla. reflectors and other trofe equin- ' Pressure, in low "in a trough, galanding-|ment 'on vehicles. from Teking across SW Chine' to, BurME Today's Forecutti--Moderato V nad BE winds, cloudy with light intervia; anther

warmer.

Yesterday's Weather Maximum i dr. Fah

·Minimums``60,4 den. Pub

Imahlow; 0.8 hour, Tafut

(6) Through inspection of all vehicles, before allowing them on the road This Inspection to also frovar. military trucks, ·

(7) Strict measures to be adopt. *ed in regard to those who profess 1-to teach driving. At present,

Darre, Reich Food

wreck the future pence of Europe and he, in working desperately to bridge the widening gap between General Marshall and M. Molo-

American

'Phones

To Strike

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The statement said, "The Conservative and National | Liberal parties voted with the Government because they were [usaured by publje "eclarations of Ministers and had every rea- son to bolleve the plan

the mitted to Parliament was result of leng, and careful and deliberate studying by respon- | Ribje ministers of the Crown and was based on the advice of their milliary experts,

Naked Concession "We believed the proposals represent minimum defence ar- rangements which wouldˆmeet our needs, and our commitments in the next few years. On this basis the bill passed its second reading by a majority of over 300 of whom 192 were member's of the Opposition.

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"Now it appears that thia elaborate scheme. for whloh we were asked to vote had foundation, that it was not re- lated to our national needs, that the Ministers who brought it forward had no conviction, and that rather than have trouble · with the tall. of their

party they have cost their polley. aside.

Hitherto highly secret details of this betrayal are contained in minutes of a meeting "Hitler held on August 31, 1944, to turn the west- ern army staff over to the almost unknown Generals Westphal and Krebs. Hitler told his new generals detalls of the plot must be kept from the German people because

"The affect of this naked "while German morale might not break

concession will be injurious to down completely it would undermine their

the "repitation of our country faith in the armed forces." The people. were

|at this critical time all over tho to be told Kluge suffered a brain attack. world. It makes it plain beyond Von Kluge completed arrange | I have lived only with one out that while the Govern- ments with the Allies to meet resolve to lead this war bont comes forward with great démands upon the patriotism British representatives" in "No cause I know only a natural- Man's Land, Hitler told his will of fran can win this war of the people and goodwill of generals, and actually went to

"I Am

now making this the House of Commons they are meet them. The only thing accusation to the General Staff not, basing themselves upon which folled the meeting was Instead of shining with the rays true and considered view unexpected dive bomber of this: iron will. It often had what wo really need. attack which drove the Britteha treakening effect even * "Policy Of Scuttle officers to cover and caused | front: officers who came under "This want of decision

Its influence"--United. Preas,* Kluge to shoot himself.

flects directly upon the Prime Success of the plot Hitler:

Minister and In, the antd, would mean the "end of

place-upon the Minister of De-- fence.

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Shanghal, Apr. 0. The China Merchants steamer Washington, April 6.... the war." He described the Joseph A. Beirne, Pre-whole story as something like "Hai Tion" returned here today "Why did they call upon us from Calcutta after 'completing on national grounds to vote for on "indian novel," Hacke has been Interned since.

"It was the most bitter, dis-her maiden voyage between China ! the proposala last Monday (Continued on. Page 18 Col. 5.) October, 1946, in the wing ofsident of the National

of where only one Federation

Tele-appointment possible," he said and India-Central News. the prison patrolling guard won main phone Workers, today "I trusted and valued him (von

Kluge) very highly. Backe was assistant to Walter flatly rejected a propo-pera-nally gave him promotions Minister. sal that the •nation- and I gave him the highest Actually, he was in charge of wide telephone strike military orders. I added largo all agriculture phasen of the scheduled to begin on sums to his salary, I can't Nazi occupation of Europe, since Darre himself was cut of favour with Hitler.

So carefully had Backe hid

suicide den plans to commit

that he from his colleagues went to Good Friday services with them in the prison chapel. Backe, a native of Batuni, Russia, was veteran of the Nazi Party since 1920, and had service been in Government since 1933,-United Press.

Gangsters Terrorise

East

so

End

into-

understand, how he came that mess. Maybe he could see no other way, out.!!.

Monday be postponed.

The proposal was advanced by three religious leadera in

Hitler also revealed that the Easter morning pleas that the

to plot involved officers in almost dispute, which threatens

Generals disrupt the nation's communica-overy western staff.

Rommel, Rundatedt, Gehrck and tions, he postponed.

Mr. Bierne anld: "The reason Blumentritt, said Hitler, were em among the few high ranking we cannot at this time brace a week's delay is we have western front generals who been through three months of were "completely clean." negotiations and an additional week would be meaningless since "Keep Your Nerve" we cannot at that line slicere- Hitler ordered hin remaining ly expect the company to bar-generals to clean out your gain in good faith."

shops and keàp your nerve."

Mr. Beirne's statement won' "Rommel: I hold to be a most made after Secretary of Labour capable leader, within certain Lewin B. Schwellenbach hadimits," said Hitler, "but I hold said he still wan hopeful of him to be a stand-patter. When averting the threatened strike. everything goes good he bounds Mr. Schwellenbach appealed to te the heavens, but when telephone workers not to jump crisis sets in he has difficulties,” the gun by walking out before Of the July 20 attempt on his the deadlino..

life, Hitler: said: "Fate could Labour Department officials

have taken näother course and reported "no substantial

proit would have meant freedomi greas" after four hours of con- for me from an enormous bur ferences between the American

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London, Apr. 5. Gangsters using guns, knives, razors and knuckle- dusters are terrorising East London tenants who seek rent reduction by appealing to the municipal trbunals recently set up to enforce reductions in exorbitant rents, according to the Chairman of the East London Tribunal, Mr. Michael Marcus,

Union of Telphone Workers and den on the nerves. It would be "Battered, bruised and blee! they do not vacate the premizes thd long distance department only a fraction of second and Ing tenants are arriving and there is visible evidence of of the American Telephone- the man would have been re leased to eternal freedom. I frequently st. our office that it

um nevertheless glad to be 364,4 mm, as agulant as we at many so-called teachers under is beginning to resemble a hos

stand little or nothing about plial", he declared today cat Deadingy más

driving or traffe regulations.

"These tenants are the (8) The registration of all such teachers after they have been fenceless victims of vicious and subhiitted to a thorough test vindictive Inndlords who ignore to their qualifications.

the rules of the Tribunal. We are told that the weapons they employ to evlet tenants who appeal to the Tribunal Include revolvere, razors, knives and knuckle-dusters E

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(D) Steps be taken to ensure that: cirners of vehicles do not Washington, Apr. 0. foverload or carry excess passon

19 Irving Rodi, parintendant 1 sers

wavage assaults." He added: Telegraph Company.

Similar statements

were

"The growing threat of eviction made regarding conferences allve," to social security."--Reuter. la fast becoming a grave menace between the Southwest Bell Telephona Company and the Soull - western Telephone Workers Union-United Press.

THAT'LL LEARN THEM

"Inevitable Break” “ At this point Hitley told his faithful gonerals to put their hope for the future in on "inevitable break" in the Allled. coalition, TARVINAM

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Flensburg, Apr. 8. Because they refused” to sci of National Capital parka anys (10) Specified car parks be laid that on the basis of the present down for private, cars, public Mr. Marcus said that begants commodato German refugees in Page Twe

|-thair : homes in two 17 GerISAD Ampo Hungry Reds condition of buds And next cars and lorries.

who apply to the Tribifal are, women have been sentenced by

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Military Drivers Immediately hikestenal with a British control commission ther

Itenvyield a court to spend four week ¿Washington's famedg arry (11); Special; licensee should eviction; and:

ing their refugee camp so they can trees will be in full boom next be daunt to drivers, of military threats by- data quɑlooted, long, truck) At: thymoment, many mill- ouplications.

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